in reading, is a falling of the voice below the key-note at the close of every period. In reading, whether prose or verse, a certain tone is assumed which is called the key-note; and in this tone the bulk of the words are founded; but this note is generally lowered towards the close of every sentence.

in music, according to the ancients, is a series of a certain number of notes, in a certain interval, which strike the ear agreeably, and especially at the end of the song, stanza, &c. It consists ordinarily of three notes.

the modern music, may be defined a certain conclusion of a song, or of the parts of a song, which divide it, as it were, into so many numbers or periods. It is when the parts terminate in a chord or note, the ear seeming naturally to expect it; and is much the same in a song, as the period that closes the sense in a paragraph of a discourse.

A cadence is either perfect, consisting of two notes sung after each other, or by degrees conjoined in each of the two parts, and by these means satisfying the ear; or imperfect, when its last measure is not in the octave or unison, but a fifth or third. It is called imperfect, because the ear doth not acquiesce in the conclusion, but expects a continuation of the song. The cadence is said to be broken, when the bass, instead of falling a fifth, as the ear expects, rises a second, either major or minor. Every cadence is in two measures; sometimes it is suspended, in which case it is called a repose, and only consists of one measure, as when the two parts stop at the fifth, without finishing the cadence. With regard to the bass-viol, Mr Rouffleau distinguishes two cadences, one with a rest, when the finger, that should shake the cadence, stops a little, before it shakes, on the note immediately above that which requires the cadence; and one without a rest, when the stop is omitted.

in the menage, an equal measure or proportion, observed by a horse in all his motions; so that his times have an equal regard to one another, the one does not embrace or take in more ground than the other, and the horse observes his ground regularly.

CADÈNE, one of the sorts of carpets which the Europeans import from the Levant. They are the worst sort of all, and are sold by the piece from one to two piastras per carpet.